GMAT Vocabulary Flash Cards @ englishpdf.com and englishteststore.com File 474 paleontology (n) The branch of biology that treats of ancient life and fossil organisms palette (n) A thin tablet, with a hole for the thumb, upon which artists lay their colors for painting palindrome (n) a word or phrase which reads the same backwards and forwards palinode (n) A retraction pall (v) To make dull by satiety palliate (v) To cause to appear less guilty pallid (adj) Of a pale or wan appearance pallor (n) lack of facial color